Senior Generalist Programmer

 

Description:

As a Senior Generalist Programmer at this studio in Ottawa you’ll be working with an a range of programmers from within the studio and at our client’s studios so you’ll need to bring your strong programming skills to the mix and know how to work with other people’s strengths to make the best code around.

 

This studio walks the walk when it comes to employee satisfaction and looking after each other. You’ll be joining a supportive environment with a long list of benefits from dental and health care, to massages and movie nights (although not necessarily at the same time!). Not only is this a brilliant place to work but the games they help to create are among the most influential names around.

 

So if you’ve got a background of working across platforms and have a real passion for pushing creative projects to their best, then this could be the job for you!

 

Senior Generalist Programmer Responsibilities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Work alongside clients and partners and their programmers to bring the games to life!
• Take control of design, implementation and debugging across all game features as needed.
• Input on system improvements and tools that will allow game designers to work most effectively.
• Work on game toolsets and pipelines, and also analyse and optimise runtimes.

 

Requirements for this role in Ottawa:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• 6 or more years of experience as a programmer in a games studio.
• Extensive background of work using both C++ and C#.
• Able to show your understanding of the fundamentals and bigger picture of what is needed from your coding.
• Experience programming with Unity, Unreal and/or similar.
• Experience analysing and optimising existing code.
• Previous work with large codebases.
• Good maths skills including understanding of vectors, matrices, and algorithms.
• It would also be beneficial if some of your programming experience is for both console and mobile games.